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« N.H. man, 21, dies in fall from Providence Place escalator | Today | Hatch testimony centers on check for charity venture » January 13, 2006Providence man found guilty of strangling wifePROVIDENCE - A Providence man was convicted today of second-degree murder in the strangling death of his wife, whose body was found by a cleaning crew two months after her death. James "Clyde" Gillespie, 43, was accused of strangling his wife, Betty Sue, 40, in 1998, wrapping and bundling her corpse and stowing it in a crawlspace in their West End apartment behind a padlocked closet. He lived with the decomposing corpse for about two months before he moved out of the house and a cleaning crew discovered it. The Superior Court jury, which began deliberating late yesterday, took about two hours to return the verdict. Gillepsie faces 10 years to life on the murder charge at sentencing, scheduled for March 31. The jury had also had the option of convicting him of first-degree murder. According to state law, second-degree murder is an unlawful killing with malice. Premeditation and deliberation are elements of first-degree murder. Gillespie was also convicted of one count of failure to report a death with the intent to conceal a crime, according to Michael Healey, a spokesman for Rhode Island Attorney General's Office. Posted by Jack Perry |
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